From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Botton Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/09 Message-ID: <373635DA.EA07F905@Botton.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476014859 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <3728E60E.F789FD8@uq.net.au> <7h55i0$2ro3@drn.newsguy.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@gate.net X-Trace: news.gate.net 926299612 18970 199.227.148.176 (10 May 1999 01:26:52 GMT) Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 1999 01:26:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-10T01:26:52+00:00 List-Id: So how does this make Java better? If Ada is compiled to byte code and has use of all the Java APIs, JDKs, etc. Perhaps the debate should be is the JVM environment / script engine better then say the native machine / OS combination and direct bindings. BTW, The difference is you could write Java, its VM, all its libraries and GUIs in Ada and get a better product then if you wrote Ada in Java! (Of course you could write Ada or Java in Perl too, another great scripting language just like Java :) David Botton bob@nospam wrote: > > Pepole are writing now very advanced GUI's in Java > > > But you are missing something. The whole point of having a standard library > that comes with the language, is to be the interface between the application > written in the language and the environemnt. > You can say that on the JVM Ada comes with them too! > The Ada library has no such thing. So, when I program in Java, I am > much more efficient and productive than in Ada, not becuase the Java > language is better (although the Java language is very good also), but > becuase the Java library is much more advanced. If you are more productive in Java (including debug and testing time) it is because you have studied and collected the available resources and practiced. Doing the same for Ada will yield similar results.